so, in any project of moderate size, one that takes a few months at least, how many times on average do you find yourself wanting to torch everything and just start over?

solid answer.

i was thinking of the city itself, the look of it, and the people too. and the bars. and the total lack of rules.

Every single day/minute

If it matters any, everyone I've ever talked to that dislikes SF all say the same thing: "the people are [fill in the blank, but always negative]."

SF was actually the most disappointing place for me because I was told a million times over the years to go there because I would love it to death, that I'm a total fit for the place.

Ugh... I really don't want to get political, but this is absurd on a few levels. Since I'm bored this morning...

The ID requirements for Texas voting is a state-issued ID. What's amazing is that getting a TX ID is free, which is a far cry from the $25+ it charges in CA.

http://gotidtexas.org/

For the Poors.

Mind that this bill was created and passed by officials, not by ballet measures, as so many laws in CA are passed. A large portion of ballet measured petitioned by the people, voted by the people, and passed into law by the people are incredibly detrimental to the poors. In fact, if you ever even signed a petition from a hippy on a street corner, you have exploited the poors. Why? Because the petition passing companies promise pay, then they not only refuse to pay the people after a month of working, they actually turn around a sue the employees for "fraud." This happened to me and others I've known and no, I never bothered to pay the $1000. So, yeah, don't sign petitions.

If you care sooooo much about the poors, go to the local ghetto high school, organize field trips to the Redwoods so the poors can see something that is larger than their 3 block neighborhood. Volunteer to coach baseball, or perhaps volunteer to teach inner city children programming. You really get a gold star if you invite said poors into your house so they can see that rich people aren't so scary after all. Mentor a child or two so they can get out of that **** without making a million missteps. Maybe adopt a wild human or open your home to foster care.

But, as long as you are signing petitions that promote NIMBY and keeps the inner city schools broke, and you keep inking your name on petitions that are openly exploiting the poors from both ends, you have nothing to speak on. As long as you are locking your neighborhoods away from poors by refusing public transportation in your area, building more fences than the ghetto has, and promoting the excessively high rents, then you really have nothing to speak on.

Finally, I would hope you, your friends, or family aren't living in an area that is prone to fires. A large portion of the wildfire firefighters are prisoners working for about $3 per day. Surely, you nor anyone you know or care about promotes slavery?

The difference is, one is about the actions of the collective people and the other is about the actions of a small group of lawmakers. I'll take a bow on the women issues.

That's probably good because your hot take on "the poors" was so awesome...

Apparently goofyballer was so terrified of a potential derail by Mihklol he went ahead and decided to hot take politics to prevent it. A true man of the people.

gotta admit I did lol

All, we're putting new cover sheets on the TPS reports.

lol, that's amazing

Restrictions on budget allocation are so frustrating. My scientific advisor would buy students business class train tickets when we were going to conferences, in order to spend the governmental money that would otherwise remain unused, and there was no opportunity for me to travel in the economy class and pocket the difference of the costs

When I and my peers became postgrads, he did start giving us small cash premiums in envelopes, though, because, again, the funds would be forfeited otherwise

Well, I'm sorry that those people were wrong.

There's probably a slight bit of selection bias in saying "everyone I've ever talked to that dislikes SF says something negative about the people". I think the people here are pretty great, and this area attracts largely open-minded people that I tend to enjoy spending time with.

Yeah, that was a mistake. My intent wasn't to start a political debate, just to point out that different people have different preferences within the overall theme of CA not being right for Dave. I will happily end the derail now by not responding to any of his political tirade, beyond saying that every assumption you [Dave] made about my views on local politics is wrong.

Since we're on an extensive derail anyway, what do you guys think about these places from the perspective of a non-white person? My experience, as a non-white person, has been that in a lot of Southern and Midwestern cities, it's very easy to be otherized if you're not white, whereas in coastal cities (NYC/LA/SF and to a lesser extent Boston and Seattle) you don't feel as much that people are treating you differently.

Here is Boston we hate everyone equally.

Oh, and you didn't even bother calling to hang out while I was visiting?

Harumph!

I grew up in KC and had a Korean friend growing up who lived in my neighborhood. One of the only Asian kids in the school. I didn't think anything at all about it. But maybe he felt "otherized" I dunno.

Except I'm pissed at him now for not forcing me to eat all that weird smelling food and discover Korean food 20 years sooner than I did.

I've worked in texas my whole life, and my workplaces were almost universally Very White and Very Male and Very Young. Everyone denies there's any racism/sexism/agism in hiring though, so.

This actually reveals the subtle racism of whites toward asians and candybar's discomfort at his own ethnicity.

Obv being black is way different than being an asian who grew up in LA. So non-white is pretty nondescript from "cornerstone of tech community" to "man everyone views you totally weird".

That's complete nonsense.

Obviously I'm trying to minimize the amount of details about myself that can be used to identify me but I've definitely felt "man everyone views you totally weird" multiple times in the South and the Midwest and I've barely spent any time in these places. When people are openly talking about how enlightened they are for thinking that I'm probably not a terrorist - it does make you wonder. It's fairly rare for me feel that way in SF/LA/NYC - pluralism is kind of taken for granted in these places.

Are you saying nonwhites are all treated identically in tech or what about it is "complete nonsense"?

cb,

Totally reasonable. Just saying the world isn't just full of whites + not whites. I've never felt any of the issues you've described despite also being "not white". But I'd love for more white folks to tell me how ridiculous this is.

The part about suzzer being racist because his Korean friend didn't introduce him to Korean food.

There is nothing even remotely racist about that.

I think I once offended a southern (MS) client by writing 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas' in an email.

Wish I was joking.

Except trivializing his experience and empathy at the deliciousness of Korean food in a joke.

But hey! Totally not racist!

Which non-white are you if you don't mind sharing? Totally understand otherwise.

Yeah that didn't seem racist at all, not sure what he's getting at.